The spatial turn in social history: A review of recent research trends

In 2010 Ralph Kingston highlighted how history’s ‘rediscovery of space and place’was firmly on the agenda for the twenty-first century.1 Four years on this article askswhether Kingston’s claim is still valid or whether historians’ passion for all thingsspatial has run its course. This article review...

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Main Author: WILLIAMSON, Fiona
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2651
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3908/viewcontent/0265691414545018.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:In 2010 Ralph Kingston highlighted how history’s ‘rediscovery of space and place’was firmly on the agenda for the twenty-first century.1 Four years on this article askswhether Kingston’s claim is still valid or whether historians’ passion for all thingsspatial has run its course. This article reviews five recent collections of essays connected by themes of urban space and place, and asks how far the exploration of spaceas a way of understanding the past is still proving an embryonic and constructiveway of approaching the past.